All:
Yahoo!Groups is currently running a survey. If you go to the main
page at:
http://groups.yahoo.com you will find a link to the survey.
The survey, which is long, covers some of the ideas that Yahoo! has
for a 'premium' level -- including paying to remove ads. Once the
survey is done, I am sure they will roll out the premium service.
Toward the end of the survey, they present different scenarios, one
of them being the 'free' (ad-supported) version of Yahoo!Groups.
This will have 5MB of file space and allow a certain amount of
traffic bandwidth. I think that it will be more than enough to
support the current SHADO discussion list. (Since ours is a text
based group -- the image based groups will be hit harder)
Most of the options were centered around the list owner paying the
fee so group membership would remain free. There was an option for
indivdual members to pay to remove ads (IIRC).
I'd recommend all SHADO members take the survey -- but be
forewarned, it's an indepth survey -- it will take a good 15 minutes
or so to go thru it.
As for moving the list to another site -- there are fewer free ones
and it's my feeling that Yahoo!Groups is one of the more popular of
the ones left. I'm sure the list has picked up members that did a
search on Yahoo!Groups rather than come in soley via Marc's Web site.
As for the briefcase idea, you can do that -- but then you have to
remember which briefcase had which item. I don't think there's
anything in any of the archives that won't fit into 5MB and/or can't
be rotated on an orderly basis to give everyone a chance to post
their stuff.
Just my .02
Anthony
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--- In SHADO@y..., Marc Martin <marc@u...> wrote:
> >The message about photos of the convention reminded me: recently
> >there has been orc-talk around about Yahoo cutting down each email
> >group's allowed file size from 20 megabytes to 5 megabytes unless
> >Yahoo are paid by that group's members and/or manager. And a
limit on
> >bulk of messages per month.
>
> Well, I wouldn't worry about that... this list will survive one
way or
> another -- either I'll pay for whatever's needed, or we'll move
the
> list somewhere else. As for the limit on the filesize, I suspect
that
> most of
> the 18 megabytes in the files area are old files which are rarely
accessed
> anymore, and could either be moved to a website or deleted.
>
> As for the pay options, just show me the one where I can remove all
> of the excessive advertising which shows up while accessing SHADO
> via the website! That's the one I want! :-)
>
> Marc
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